JEFFERSON COUNTY, Alabama - A deadly shooting in eastern Jefferson County Thursday night appears to have resulted from a drug-deal-gone bad rather than a carjacking, as initially reported, authorities said today.

"This was not a random act," said sheriff's Chief Deputy Randy Christian.

Killed in the gunfire was Larrice Montez Bryant, 33, of Adamsville. Investigators believe he was going to meet the suspects to buy marijuana.

Christian gave this updated account: A deputy was patrolling on Center Point Parkway when he was flagged down in the parking lot of CVS by a man who told him his son had just been carjacked in the McDonald's parking lot by two black men.

He said the two men had been following them, and then, brandishing guns, jumped into the victims' Chevy Avalanche at McDonald's and pointed the guns at both victims.

The father, whose name hasn't been released, jumped out of the truck.

The Avalanche left McDonald's and traveled down 20th Avenue N.W. The sheriff's office then began to receive calls of shots fired in the 1600 block of Sixth Place N.W.

Witnesses reported hearing shots fired and saw the Avalanche swerving. When it stopped, a man wearing a white T-shirt and blue jeans got out of the truck and ran around to the driver's side. He pulled Bryant out of the car, punched him several times and ran away. A second man, who was wearing a black T-shirt, dark jeans, black shoes and braids in his hair, also fled the scene. Authorities said he ran down the hill on Sixth Place, in the opposite direction of the other suspect. Deputies believe he may have been wounded.

Deputies, Birmingham police and Center Point Fire and Rescue responded, and found the Avalanche stopped in the roadway in the 1600 block of Sixth Place N.W. Bryant was sitting in the road against the driver's side of the truck, suffering from gunshot wounds.

Rescue workers pronounced him dead on the scene.

Deputies recovered two guns at the scene,

Search efforts, including tracking dogs, failed to turn up the suspects.

Anyone with information is asked to call the sheriff's office at 325-1450 or Crimestoppers at 254-7777.